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xty-Sixth Congress, Second Session -------- Senate Document No. 23G 



ADDRESS OF 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN 

DELIVERED AT THE CONSECRATION 
OF THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT 
GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA '^7 

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THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE 
UNITED STATES SENATE 

ON THE OCCASION OF THE READING OF 
THE ADDRESS ON FEBRUARY 12, 1920 




PRESENTED BY ilR. KEYES 
February 14, 1920.— Referred to the Committee on Printing 



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SENATE RESOLUnOX XO. 314. 

(Rc-ri^.rtod I.y Mr. Moses.) 



Ix THE Senate of the Uxited States, 

Felruary 26, 1920. 

Resolved, That the copy, wxitten by Abraham Lincohi, of his 
address delivered at the consecration of the Xational Cemetery at 
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Xovember 19, 1863, as read to the 
Senate of the United States by Senator Henry W. Keyes on February 
13, 1920, together with extracts from the Congressional Record 
sho\sing the proceedings relating thereto be reproduced and printed 
as a Senate docimient, with illustrations, and that sixty thousand 
additional copies be printed, of which fifty-five thousand shall be for 
the use of the Senate and five thousand for the use of the Senate 
document room. 

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MODEL OF THE STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL. 
Washington, D. C. 



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LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 

PROCEEDINGS IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE, FEBRUARY 12, 1920, 
ON THE OCCASION OF THE READING OF THE ADDRESS DELIVERED 
BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT THE CONSECRATION OF THE NATIONAL 
CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ON NOVEMBER 19, 1863 



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■R. LODGE. Mr. President, the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. 
Keyes] has in his possession one of the two existing copies of the 
Gettysburg address, written throughout in Mr. Lincoln's own 
hand. I ask the unanimous consent of the Senate that Senator 
Keyes. on this anniversary of Lincoln's birth, may read the Gettysburg 
address from the original manuscript in Mr. Lincoln's hand. 

The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair hears none. The 
Senator from New Hampshire. 

Mr. KEYES. It so happens. Mr. President, that I am fortunate enough 
to possess and to have here to-day the manuscript of President Lincoln's 
famous Gettysburg address, and I shall be very glad, indeed, to comply with 
the suggestion of the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Lodge.] 

It may be of interest to the Senate to know a little of the history of this 
manuscript. It was given by President Lincoln to Edward Everett, and he 
presented it. together with the manuscript of his own address, also delivered 
at Gettysburg, at the consecration of the National Cemetery on the 19th of 
November, 1863, to Mrs. Hamilton Fish, who was then president of the 
executive committee of the ladies having charge at the fair in aid of the 
sanitary commission held in New York in March, 1864, to be disposed of 
for the benefit of our soldiers of the Civil War. These two manuscripts 
were purchased at this fair by an uncle of mine and have been in my family 
ever since. 

I will now read, Mr. President, from the Lincoln manuscript: 

'Tour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth 
upon this continent, a nev^ nation, conceived in Liberty, and 
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 



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''Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether 
that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can 
long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final 
resting place for those who here gave their lives, that that 
nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we 
should do this. 

''But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not 
consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, 
living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far 
above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little 
note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never 
forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be 
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought 
here, have, thus far, so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to 
be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that 
from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that 
cause for which they here gave the last full measure of de- 
votion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not 
have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have 
a new birth of freedom — and that, government of the people, 
by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the 
earth. ^' 

[A facsimile of the original manuscript, together with a letter from Robert T. Lincoln, 
will be found on the following pages.] 

Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, as a further mark of respect to the memory 
of Abraham Lincoln I move that the Senate do now adjourn. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 12 o'clock and 10 
minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Friday, February 13, 
1920, at 12 o'clock meridian. 



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